Ernest L. Hall Jr.

He was born July 15, 1920, in Providence, R.I., the only son of Ernest Leslie and Sarah Elizabeth (Melling) Hall Sr. and was raised in Lawrence, Mass.

He was educated in Lawrence schools and was a graduate Lawrence Memorial High School.

In 1941 he married Roberta (Yerxa) Hall. They lived in Granby, Conn., where Mr. Hall was a production engineer at Pratt & Whitney until he transferred to Experimental Flight Testing. In 1949 they built a house in Hampton, N.H., where they raised their three children. He was regional sales representative for Gates Rubber Company during that time. In 1954 he became national sales manager for Devcon Corporation, where he was a director and vice president until his retirement in 1979.

He served on the National Board of American Hardware and Manufacturer's Association and the American Supply and Machinery Manufacturing Association. He was listed in Who's Who of American Businessmen.

He was a member of Grace Episcopal Church and the church choir.

Mr. Hall was an avid sailor and world traveler; he enjoyed opera, sports, pursuing his interests in art and photography, skiing, golfing, flying, music, wildlife, the sea and gardening. His greatest pleasures were in the company of his family, friends and German Shepherd dogs. He found inspiration from his Native American heritage through his great-grandmother, a Passamaquoddy from St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

He was a member of the Bektash Temple of Shriners; the oldest living member of the York Golf and Tennis Club in York, and a founding member of the National Museum of the American Indian.

He married Dorothy (Kostas) Hall on April 7, 1960, and with her daughter, they moved to Dimond Hill Farm in Epping, N.H. After their retirement, they farmed high bush blueberries, designed and marketed subdivisions, apartments and condominiums. They moved from the farm to a house they designed and built on the Lamprey River, where they initiated the annual River Boat Race, an Epping tradition which continues to this day.

Just before moving to Maine in 2000, they donated 113 acres of forest land to the Rockingham Land Trust. The place they were happiest was at their house in Jonesport overlooking Moosebec Reach, where they started spending summer months in 1984.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Kostas Hall of Scarborough and Jonesport; daughter and her husband, Sandra Hall Bourrie and Guy Bourrie of Washington; son, David Leslie Hall and his wife Sydney Smead Hall of Hope, daughter Meredith Ann Hall of Cape Elizabeth, daughter Carole Haigh Bilodeau and her husband Daniel Bilodeau of Newmarket, N.H.; grandchildren and their families, Pia Walker and her husband David Holbrook and children Ruby, Stella and Ursula of Liberty, Willow Hall and son Zebediah of Hope, Sky Hall and his wife, Makiko Kato and Ariel Hall, all of Brooklyn, N.Y., Ron Letourneau of Cape Elizabeth, Zachary Lozier of San Francisco, Morgan Lozier and his wife Elizabeth, son John and daughter Mia of Austin, Texas, Dylan Haigh and his wife Kristy Martino of Portsmouth, N.H., Brittany Haigh Bilodeau and her partner Samantha Courtois of New Boston, N.H., Bracket Bilodeau of New York, N.Y., Emerson Bilodeau of Newmarket; and one cousin and sister in spirit, Madge Reynolds of Minnetonka, Minn.

SERVICES: A memorial celebration will be held Saturday, Feb. 2, from 1 to 3 p.m., at the York Golf and Tennis Club, 62 Organug Road, York, Maine.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The Native American Rights Fund, 1506 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80302-6296 or to the Trust for Public Land, 101 Montgomery St. Suite 900, San Francisco, California 94104.